"Take any one of these cards""Choose a good husband for your daughter""She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Under Formby 's plan , an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor , lieutenant_governor , speaker of the House , attorney_general and chief_justice of the Texas_Supreme_Court .

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

Volumes One and Two , selected from the sound_tracks of a television series , contain `` conversations with the elder wise_men of our day '' .

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

This comes not alone from high-set , high-rep training , but from certain definition specialization exercises which the champion selects for himself with the knowledge of exactly what works best for him .

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

Dr._Wilson_C._Grant , of the Veterans_'_Administration_Hospital , Coral_Gables , Florida , and the University_of_Miami_School_of_Medicine , set_out to discover if avocados , because of their high content of unsaturated fatty_acids , would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients .

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

In method as_well_as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical_composition , as_well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall be nothing unthematic '' .